tlapanic (Mdz49r)

tlapanic (Mdz49r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element for something broken up or split (tlapanic) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Tlapanic Itlan. What is split, here, is a mountain top. The sign for tepetl has been employed, and the artist put a deep V, or cleft, in it.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Landscape Features
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tlapanic, something broken up or split, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlapanic
i- (possessor), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/i
-tlan (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

to break or split

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 49 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 108 of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).

See Also: 

Tlapanic Itlan (Mdz49r)